Aesthetically, it's... different. It may grow on me, or I may come to hate it. For now, it's usable, so I'll wait 'n' see.

Old thread links remain usable! Huzzah! I was afraid they'd be broken all over the place. That'd hose up the links I've posted on DeviantArt illustrations something awful, not to mention the fanfic forum index. So glad to see that's not an issue after all.

It was kind of nice being able to see which threads you've posted in and which threads were "hot" via the thread icon. Any plans to revive that?

I can post images in threads! Hot patootie! Slackbot Draws Stuff will no longer be a boring wall of text and links! It will be spiced up by boring pictures! Thank you!

And the biggie for me--I can finally be an open, uncloseted AOL user and get notifications via E-mail! At least, I think I can. Someone reply to a thread I've watched so I can be sure.

Welcome to the new Muppet Central Forum. Many months of work have gone into researching and finding the best forum software available for our needs now and in the future. We hope that you like the results. We believe that the more you use our new forum, the more you'll like it.

*On the main forum page, it tells you what sections have had latest updates, but there's no direct link to the latest update. We must sift through the thread = sloppy architecture! That little alert button, cute as it is, just doesn't cut it like the individual thread arrow buttons that took the user to the last post.

*Just navigating through this new forum on my smart phone for 5 minutes burned up 15% of the battery life and made me keep refreshing the pages in order for anything to appear.

*We can't Title posts anymore, but I guess we can just bold the first statement.

*These extra "goodies" were always available on the other board, we were just restricted from using them just like the "!!!" and the . Tell me, why are we still limited to how many we can use?

*Each post should be more clearly separated from the one before and after it. This whole page is floating with nothing to ground it.

*And what's with the weird points and rewards? The more time I spend here, the more I'm made aware that an adult-swim forum is more appropriate for my sensibilities. I'm not in need of a gold star to celebrate how much I've posted.

*I've always appreciated the new forum because creativity came from content, ideas and external links. I really don't have the desire to mess with this page and figure it out.

So far, I'd say it was not worth waiting a day and a half. Maybe I'll get used to it, but for now it's hard for me to figure things out. And when I click on "forum" on the main page, it goes to the old link, which provides the new link to click on. I hope I can get used to this fast.

Don't want to get too long since it's highly unlikely this will even work and post but the new forum doesn't work with webtv - WHICH MEANS I CAN NO LONGER ACCESS THE FORUMS ANYMORE!!!

**** IT! If it's not broke, don't "fix" it! Haven't been able to access Tough Pigs for years due to delphi long ago becoming webtv-incompatable and now with this change, i no longer have a "home" - this was my last link to sanity and the only remaining somewhat good thing in my life left and now that's gone too?

*&&%!!!

I'm trying every proxy i know of to try to find some kind of workaround but after four hours of no success, this probably won't post either so here goes nothing...

Don't want to get too long since it's highly unlikely this will even work and post but the new forum doesn't work with webtv - WHICH MEANS I CAN NO LONGER ACCESS THE FORUMS ANYMORE!!!

**** IT! If it's not broke, don't "fix" it! Haven't been able to access Tough Pigs for years due to delphi long ago becoming webtv-incompatable and now with this change, i no longer have a "home" - this was my last link to sanity and the only remaining somewhat good thing in my life left and now that's gone too?

*&&%!!!
I'm trying every proxy i know of to try to find some kind of workaround but after four hours of no success, this probably won't post either so here goes nothing...

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I agree.

All of these improvements - the video embed, the image embed and these new bells and whistles were completely available and could have been implemented in the old vBulletin format that Muppet Central Forums successfully used for nearly a decade. I do like the quicker speed here, but that just appears to be a server-side issue and not a formatting one. The rest is just needless garbage that totally killed my cellphone's battery while waiting at the dentist's office today.

Phil - can you at least darken the lines between posts? It all just runs together and makes things more difficult to read.

How about improving the cards section, the episode guides, the other website content or something, anything else aside from what's already been working? This appears to me like Muppet Central's attempt to compete with Facebook and to have the members spend more time here than there.